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/pm:resume pops the top frame from the detour stack, restores the paused epic to active status, and runs the mandatory reconcile gate if the frame has reconcileOnResume: true. This is the structured re-entry to work that was parked — the step otherwise lost after a context compaction. Do not skip it or hand-clear reconcileNeeded directly.

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Prerequisites

Before running /pm:resume, confirm that the detour epic is archived and its work is committed and deployed. If the detour isn’t finished yet, it is not time to resume — finish the detour first and archive it, then come back here.

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What happens

1

Verify the detour is complete

Confirm the detour epic is archived and all changes are committed. If anything is still in progress, stop and finish the detour first.
2

Pop the stack frame

Remove the top frame from detourStack in .conductor/state.json.
3

Restore the paused epic

Set the paused epic’s status back to active and update the .active pointer to it.
4

Delegate to the reconciler (if required)

If the popped frame had reconcileOnResume: true, do not write any code yet. Delegate a clean-context review to the reconciler agent via the Task tool, passing it the paused epic id and the detour epic id.
5

Receive the verdict

The reconciler re-reads the paused proposal, diffs what the detour actually changed, and reports back VERDICT: valid|invalidated plus AMENDMENTS: — one story to add, remove, or amend per line.
6

Write the verdict back durably

Record the result with:
This attaches { verdict, amendments, reconciledAt } to the paused epic’s link to the detour and clears reconcileNeeded in one step. Do not hand-clear reconcileNeeded — use this command.
7

Re-render and continue

Run conductor.mjs render, then state the exact next story to build on the resumed epic.

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Reconcile verdicts

Either way, always write the verdict back with record-reconcile. Narration alone in the transcript does not clear reconcileNeeded.

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Honcho memory

After the reconcile gate completes, preserve the resume context for Honcho:
This prints a formatted resumed <parent>, reconciled vs <detour-id>; reconcile = valid line and appends a timestamped copy to .conductor/honcho-memories.log. Paste the printed line into your Honcho MCP memory tool. The engine only formats and logs the string — it never calls Honcho itself.
The gate guard mechanically blocks Edit, Write, and NotebookEdit on the active epic while reconcileNeeded is true. This is unconditional — it applies regardless of the repo’s gateGuard setting and cannot be bypassed with set-gate-guard off. Run the full reconcile gate and call record-reconcile to clear it.